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Volume 4 · 71 words · 1778 Edition

in law, a short order or warrant signed by a judge, for making out and allowing certain processes.

FIBRARIÆ, a class of fossils, naturally and essentially simple, not inflammable nor soluble in water; and composed of parallel fibres, some shorter, others longer; their external appearance being bright, and in some degree transparent; add to this, that they never give fire with steel, nor ferment with or are soluble in acid menstrua.